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From: andrewt@cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Blood and detecting "Pool P"
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Date: 25 Nov 90 23:55:35 GMT
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In article <1990Nov25.154239.17434@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
writes:
> 	Would it be possible to recover enough DNA to do PCR on it?  I seem
> to remember reading something about doing PCR on DNA from a frozen quagga
> (a zebra-like beast which became extinct in the last ice age, now only
> found on "rogue" games).

Quaggas became extinct about 100 years ago (in Southern Africa). Maybe
you have the wrong animal?